Person Record Title

Cornelius C. Vermeule (1785-1859)

Identifier

NJS-PER-00413

Given Name

Cornelius C.

Family Name

Vermeule

Alternate Name

Vermule

Ver Meule

Birth Date

1785

Death Date

1859

Sex

Male

Occupation

Religious

Teaching

Biographical Description

The Rev. Cornelius C. Vermeule was a Dutch Reformed minister and the son of Revolutionary War Captain Cornelius Vermeule Jr. (1757-1824). He graduated from Queen's College (later Rutgers University) in 1812. After receiving his degree, he served as a tutor at Queen's in 1812-1814, and was the professor of languages in 1814-1815. He then left New Brunswick and became the pastor of the Harlem Reformed Church in 1816.

He was an enslaver. During the time when he taught at Queen's College, he sold a Black man named Prince to John Neilson.

He was the first cousin of Dr. John Vermeule whose house in Green Brook Township is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Keywords

white person

enslaver

Rutgers history

clergy

Place of Significance

New Brunswick

Harlem, NY

Organization

Rutgers University

Relationship to Rutgers

Alumnus 1812

Instructor (1812-1815)

Enslaver of

Prince (b. 1792)

Child of

Cornelius Vermeule Jr. (1757-1824)

Same As

Rev. C. C. Vermeule (Find a Grave)

Bibliographic Citation

Vermeule, Cornelius C. "Vermeule Family." Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society 13, no. 3 (July 1927).

Tilton, Edgar Jr. The Reformed Low Dutch Church of Harlem Organized 1660: Historical Sketch. New York: Published by the Consistory, 1910.

Record Contributor

Jesse Bayker